Norton, Waterlow and Braden scores: A review of the literature and a comparison between the scores and clinical judgement

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 646-653

  Anthony, Denis ^a   Parboteeah, Sam ^a   Saleh, Mohammad ^b   Papanikolaou, Panos ^c  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b The General Directorate of Armed Forces Health Services   (Saudi Arabia)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical judgement; Nurses; Pressure ulcer; Reliability; Risk assessment; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECUBITUS; HUMAN; NURSING; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

HUMANS; PRESSURE ULCER; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 39049128006     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.02029.x     Document Type: Article

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